BOOK COVER -- HALF-TITLE -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- REFERENCES TO ANCIENT TEXTS -- INTRODUCTION: PHILOSOPHY ANCIENT AND MODERN -- 1 THE PRESOCRATIC PHILOSOPHERS: THE FIRST PHILOSOPHICAL ARGUMENTS -- THE MILESIANS -- HERACLITUS -- PARMENIDES -- ZENO -- ANAXAGORAS -- THE ATOMISTS -- 2 SOCRATES: A METHOD OF DOUBT -- 3 PLATO: THE LIFE OF PHILOSOPHY -- PHILOSOPHY AND ITS RIVALS -- The Euthydemus: philosophy and eristic -- The Gorgias: philosophy and rhetoric -- Philosophy, poetry and the meaning of life -- THE LIFE OF PHILOSOPHY -- Philosophy and the fear of death -- Plato on love -- Plato on philosophy and the ideal state -- 4 ARISTOTLE: PHILOSOPHY, METHOD, BEING AND THE GOOD LIFE -- INTRODUCTION -- PHILOSOPHICAL METHOD -- BEING AND THE SCIENCES -- PHILOSOPHY AND THE GOOD LIFE -- 5 THE HELLENISTIC PHILOSOPHERS: PHILOSOPHY, NATURE AND THERAPY -- INTRODUCTION -- THE EPICUREANS -- THE STOICS -- THE SCEPTICS -- CONCLUSION: THE NATURE OF PHILOSOPHY -- NOTES -- INTRODUCTION: PHILOSOPHY, ANCIENT AND MODERN -- 1 THE PRESOCRATIC PHILOSOPHERS: THE FIRST PHILOSOPHICAL ARGUMENTS -- 2 SOCRATES: A METHOD OF DOUBT -- 3 PLATO: THE LIFE OF PHILOSOPHY -- 4 ARISTOTLE: PHILOSOPHY, METHOD, BEING AND THE GOOD LIFE -- 5 THE HELLENISTIC PHILOSOPHERS: PHILOSOPHY, NATURE AND THERAPY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.